good job you cute little shit, keep going!
(this is my first homebrew DWC hydroponic setup, so far so good)
Apples are really weird in that if you grow the seed from an apple you eat it won't make the same tree. They're all really a crapshoot from my understanding in what you get so it's pretty common to grow a sturdy base apple tree and graft on the desired genetic apple branch
Yeah, I'm aware. But I still want to see someone grow a bunch of apple trees from seed just to see what the rates of "good ones" are
I love it when the little sprouts first emerge from the soil. Well done!
What kind of setup did you build? I've been super interested in trying one
Pretty simple deep water culture build. 3 gallon bucket with an air stone/pump and clay pellets. I used as little rockwool as possible as I was advised that it commonly grows mould as the plant ages.
I haven't yet figured out a proper lighting solution for it though. I don't really have space for a grow tent so I'm considering building something like this .
The weather here has been quite shit for my outside plants and at least half of them have already died so I'd like to transition as much as I can to indoor hydro so I can grow year-round and not have to worry about poor weather conditions.
sterile reservoir?
You know, come to think of it I should have disinfected the bucket before I started using it, but alas I did not. Hopefully I don't have any issues! So far so good though.
Eh it shouldn't be too impactful, I was going to recommend against it. My experience with it is you'll never really keep it fully sterile and the nasty fungus and other creatures take hold faster.
I use something similar to this guide and everything I have grown using it vs not is noticably happier.
https://growdoctorguides.com/beneficial-microbe-tea/
By the way, just a heads up, getting hydroponics started can be prohibitively expensive. Once you get going with it they can be insanely efficient, but the set up pictured above cost me about $140, with the biggest cost by far being the liquid nutrients which was $80 (although I bought twice as much as I needed to start so I probably could have gotten away with $100)
